Yes.
I would tend to disagree with my fellow mods on this.
To get the community to engage and moderate the site, there needs to be content to moderate. And if we rush to closing questions, even if as simple as a duplicate, then users of the site don't tend to even look at the question, never mind vote or act on it.
It's no wonder that users don't vote on questions, or vote to close or reopen, if in general there is very little content to engage with.
For whatever reason, questions once closed are only rarely reopened on this site. So itclosure does seem to be a rather final action in most cases.
The stats from last year at 2019: a year in moderation:
- 95 questions closed by mods, 1 by the community
- 2 questions re-opened by mods, 0 by the community
That's not really the way it's supposed to be. The only way to get the community to take these actions is for the mods to step back a bit.
In general I would say to the mods: if its an obvious verbatim duplicate, then close it. If it's clearly off-topic, close it. If there's doubt, either confer with other mods or wait for the community to give their input. If the question is a few days old and the community has still done nothing, then close it.
Sometimes moderator action needs to be done swiftly. Closure of most questionable questions on this site is not one of them.